10 Sept.. 1917. J Reminders. 575 



Flower Garden. 



After digging, the surface must be kept constantly stirred with the 

 hoe, so as to have it loose and friable for cooling and for moisture-con- 

 serving purposes. All weeds must be kept down, as they are robbers of 

 plant food and moisture at this season of the year. Shrubs of all kinds 

 may still be planted out, and these should be well watered after planting. 

 Rose and other aphides must be watched for, and sprayed when they 

 appear with a nicotine spray. Rose scale should be sprayed with lime 

 sulphur wash or with kerosene emulsion. This pest will soon disappear 

 if the bushes are kept open to admit air and the sunlight freely. Rose 

 mildew will now be appearing, and the plants, as well as the soil, should 

 be sprinkled with liberal dustings of sulphur. Sulphide of potassium is 

 also a good specific for this fungus trouble, using it at the rate of 1 oz. 

 to 3 gallons of water. 



Cannas, early chrysanthemums, and early dahlia tubers may be 

 planted out, as^ well as all kinds of herbaceous plants, such as 

 delphinius, perennial phlox, asters, &c. These clumps should be well 

 broken up, .and in planting they should be fed with a liberal quantity of 

 stable manure. Beds should be prepared and well dug over for exhibition 

 chrysanthemums and dahlias. 



REMINDERS FOR OCTOBER. 

 Live Stock. 



Horses. — Continue to feed stabled horses well, add a ration of green-stuff. 

 Rug at night. Continue hay or straw, chaffed or whole, to grass-fed horses. 

 Feed old or badly-conditioned horses liberally. If too fat, mares due to foal 

 shortly should be put on poorer pasture. Mares with foals at foot should receive a 

 good ration of oats daily. Those intended for breeding, if not already stinted, 

 should be put to the horse. Colts not intended to be kept as stallions should 

 be gelded. Working horses due for a spell should be turned out to grass. 



Cattle. — Except on rare occasions, rugs may now be used on cows at night 

 only. Continue giving hay or straw, if possible, to counteract the effect of green 

 grass. Be prepared for milk fever. Read article in Year-Book of Agriculture, 

 1905, page 314. Give calves a warm dry shed and a good grass run. Continue 

 giving milk at blood heat to calves. Be careful to keep utensils clean, or 

 diarrhoea will result. Do not give too much milk at a time for the same reason. 

 Feed regularly with regard to quantity and time. Give a cup of limewater in the 

 milk to each calf, also place crushed oats or lucerne hay in a trough so that they 

 can eat at will. 



Pigs. — Supply plenty of bedding in warm well-ventilated styes. Keep styes 

 clean and dry, and feeding troughs clean and wholesome. Sows may now be 

 turned into grass run. Sows suckling young should be well fed to enable them 

 to produce plenty of milk. Give young pigs pollard and skim milk in separate 

 trough as soon as they will take it, and keep them fattening from the start to 

 get them off as early as possible. Give a tablespoon ful of bone meal, or half 

 that amount of mineral phosphate, per 100 lbs. live weight in food daily. If 

 pigs are lousy dress them with kerosene emulsion or sulphur and lard, rubbing 

 well into crevices of skin, and disinfect styes. Pig breeding and feeding 

 should be very profitable for a long time to come, and it should be safe to 

 launch out now. 



Sheep. — Shear as early as the weather will permit, and avoid the usual exces- 

 sive dust in travelling to, and yarding at sheds. Burr and seeds also collect 

 on the fleeces if shearing be left until late in the season, particularly with 

 lambs. Shear all lambs not going for export — -they thrive better and make 



